Gate construction.



e. w. a c. E. eoss. GATE CONSTRUCTION. APPLICATTON FILED ocT'. 28. 19:5.

Patented May 21,1918.

UNITED s'rnrns PATENT orrron.

GEORGE W. GOSS AND CHARLES GOSS, OF BALTIMORE, OHIO.

GATE CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed October 28, 1915,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE V. Gross and CHARLES E. Gross, citizens of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the county of Fairfield and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grate Constructions, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to gate construction and aims to provide a construction and arrangement whereby a gate may be ad justed after it has been in position for a given period to eliminate or overcome the sagging or dragging of its forward end. In farm gates especially, the hinges and their supporting structures are required to carry the weight of the entire gate and inasmuch as these gates are usually of considerable length, the strain placed upon them is con siderable. Further, the weight is also such that the gate structure itself may be distorted to cause a dragging or sagging of the forward end, thus requiring considerable strength and energy to open and close them.

Our invention itself resides in an arrangement for assembling these gates by means of pivot connections and a cross brace so arranged to stay the gate in any desired position of adjustment within all practical limits.

A further object of our invention resides in a-hinge for accommodating the pivotal mounting of one end of this diagonal brace piece, whereby the load transferred from its forward end is placed upon the hinge and not upon the gate structure.

The preferred embodiment of our invention is shown in the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts, and in which:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of our improved type of gate,

Fig. 2 is a cross section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of the end of the diagonal brace where it engages the forward upstanding support, and,

Fig. 4 is a view in plan of the lower hinge structure.

In these drawings, the gate is shown as being constructed of a plurality of horizontally arranged cross pieces 1 all identical in structure and each pivotally connected to each of a plurality of upstanding supports 2, 3 and a by means of bolts shown at 14c,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 2 1, 1918. Serial No. 58,483.

the supports 2 and 3 being identical in structure, while the supports t are constructed to accommodate the hinge structures. These hinge structures comprise strap elements 5 and pivot bolts 6, the latter being secured in any desired manner to the end post 7, while the two strap members 5 form the different hinges and are shown as being dissimilar in construction, although the strap element forming a portion of the upper hinge may be the same as that forming the lower hinge if desired. Reference to Figs. 1 and et will show that this strap element forming a portion of the lower hinge is extended as is shown at 8 and is pierced to receive the pivot bolt 9 by means of which the diagonal braces 10 are supported at one end, the opposite ends of these diagonal braces being provided with clips 11, the teeth 12 of which are designed to engage one end of. the upstanding support 3 in the manner shown. By pivoting these diagonal braces to the hinge straps instead of directly to the gate framework, two results are attained. One of these is that the strain of supporting the gate is not placed upon the wooden structure, but instead, upon the steel or iron structure forming the hinge, while the other advantage is that all of the cross pieces 1 and both ends of the upstanding supports 4 are identical in structure and thus great care is unnecessary on the part of the user and builder of the gate, it being understood that these gates are usually shipped in knock-down condition and the farmer depended upon to assemble them. The diagonal brace pieces 10 are provided in pairs so that they may be brought into clamping engagement with the faces of certain of the cross pieces 1 through the medium of the tightening or clamping bolts shown at 13.

From the foregoing description, it will be apparent that should the weight of the gate be suflicient to cause its sagging or dragging at its forward end, or should the mounting of the end post 7 be such as to cause this drag, all that is necessary is the loosening of the bolts 13, whereby the diagonal braces 10 are relieved of their clamping engagement with certain of the cross pieces 1. It will then be possible to elevate this end of the gate by an upward movement on its forward end, whereby all of the cross pieces 1 will pivot about their attaching bolts 14. If then the cross brace 10 is moved to a position so that the clips 11 engage the edge of the upstanding support 3 in the manner shown, the gate will b'ecoine staple and by tightening of the bolts 13 accidental distortion will be impossible. Because these r ss ces 19 a 'wit a x ched t he hinge structure instead (if to the gate itself, all strain passing through these bra'ce's, which act after the manner of a strut, will not act to muse a breakihgof the sateitself.

What we'cl'ailn is: p p

A farm gate comprising upstanding supports, cross ieces pivotauy attached to each of said supports, a strap. farming a part of the ate hinge Secured to "one-of said supports, a plurality of diagoiial'brace's piv- Copies of this p'iiteht may be 'obtiaiue'a :0:

oted at their lower ends to said strap, a sub stantiallyFU shaped clip rigidly secured to the upper ends 'oit" eachbt'sai'd braces and provided with spaced teeth, and clamping means passing through said braces for reteeth of said clips in frictional Y -en'gagenien"t with the side edges of'j'uxtaposed upstanding supports, substantially as described. n

In testimony whereof wegatfix'ed our signatures in presence oftw'o witnesses. p

' GEORGE WV. GOSS. CHARLES E. GOES. WithbSS':

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